Quotes – Page 4

The essential fact remains that, anywhere in the world, East or West, you can walk up a stranger and say, "Let me show you how to be saved", and you'll be understood.

No one works harder to stay alive than the people of our culture do.

It's become a solid part of our cultural mythology that a profound gulf seperates East from West, "and never the twain shall meet", and this causes people to be disconcerted when I speak of East and West as single culture.

Anyone who thinks the Church is open to new ideas is living in a dreamworld.

What makes him dangerous - is the fact that no one can place him or his product.

The way things are going nowadays, you'll be considered a bloody treasure if you don't turn out to be a child molester or a public drunk.

Men and women must have their adrenals stimulated from time to time.

Yes that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unplesant instead of learning to put up with it.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Call it a fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with maschinery and medicine and happiness.

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Too good - good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that musn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.